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Coroner’s
officials also said that the notes didn’t mention any health problems,
after reports circulated that the 68-year-old may have been suffering
from cancer.

The much-loved film director died on Sunday after leaping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge - one of California's highest bridges - into Los Angeles Harbor.

Disheveled: Scott was pictured looking pained as he dined out in Beverly Hills on July 23

Coroner's office spokesman Ed Winter
says one of the notes left in Scott's black Toyota Prius was a list of
emergency contact numbers and another found in his study included
messages to friends and loved ones.

The note in the car listed names and
contact numbers - including that of his wife - so police could call his
friends to tell them of his death, TMZ reported.

The mystery surrounding the suicide
deepened after the chairman of 20th Century Fox said that the director
was 'burning with excitement' over new projects just two weeks before
his suicide.

It also emerged that just two days
before 68-year-old Scott leaped to his death he had been with Tom Cruise
discussing a sequel to their 1986 hit 'Top Gun'.

The
pair toured the Fallon U.S Naval air station in Nevada, which is home
to the Naval Weapons Fighter School where the real life Top Gun pilots
complete their training.

'We had a meeting just two weeks ago
and he was burning with the excitement of creating stuff,' said Tom
Rothman, chairman of 20th Century Fox.

Scott had more big-budget Hollywood
films lined up, but his death has left them in limbo, as well as
stunning his family and friends.

Coroner's officers in Los Angeles
said that they were still trying to solve the suicide riffle after
Scott's wife Donna said U.S. reports that her husband had cancer were
'absolutely false'.

Brother: Ridley Scott is pictured here at his office in West Hollywood in the days following his brothers death

Friends of the director said that he
had no marriage or money problems and was focused on the 'Top Gun'
sequel which was preparing to go into production early next year.

Scott was also in pre-production on
an underwater drug-trafficking thriller 'Narco-Sub', another smuggling
drama 'Lucky Strike' and a remake of the 1969 western 'The Wild Bunch'.

While celebrity website TMZ reported
that Scott's wife didn't know of any serious illness that may have been a
motive, it raised the possibility that the director of 'Crimson Tide'
may have kept his illness secret.

If not there must have been a
different reason behind his decision to leap from the Vincent Thomas
Bridge in Long Beach on Sunday afternoon.

He left a contact list of people to
be informed about the tragedy in the Toyota Prius he abandoned before
climbing a fence and jumping into the Pacific.

The 68-year-old director, best known
for Top Gun, was said to have leaped to his death 'without hesitation'
in an effort to spare his family the pain of watching his slow death,
ABC News reported.

But hours later, ABC backed away from that report and the Los Angeles Times confirmed that Scott's family told the corner's office Scott did not have cancer - or any major illness.

'The
family told us it is incorrect that he has inoperable brain cancer,'
Craig Harvey, a chief at the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office told
the newspaper.

TMZ were the first to report that Scott's wife Donna told authorities her husband was healthy, according to unnamed sources.

Donna Scott told investigators that rumors
of a return of her husband's cancer was 'absolutely false', TMZ says.

The
celebrity news site also claims the preliminary results of an autopsy
did not reveal the presence of cancer - though more tests are needed. It
is believed the autopsy report could take several weeks

Tragic: Los Angeles polie officers pulled the body of Tony Scott from the water beneath the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, California

The denial of his brain cancer begs the question - what could have driven the successful director, whose
films have grossed more than $2 billion and who left behind a young family, to kill himself?

Tony Scott's tragic death came just
weeks after he was pictured looking pained as he left a Beverly Hills
restaurant on July 23 - but friends denied he had problems in his
marriage to wife Donna.

A source told the New York Post: 'He did have
cancer, and for a while he was cancer free. He didn’t have any money
problems or marriage problems.'

The beloved filmmaker, who
directed movies including Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II and Enemy Of
The State and was the younger brother of director Ridley Scott, fell within feet of a cruise boat around 12.30 p.m. on Sunday as horrified tourists watched.

'He landed right next to our tour boat, and many
of us saw the whole thing,' a witness, who had been on the cruise around the Los Angeles Harbour, told TMZ.

According to the Contra Costa Times, Scott climbed a fence on the south side of the bridge, which spans San Pedro and Terminal Island, at 12.30 p.m. on Sunday and leaped off 'without hesitation'.

A view of the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, California from where Tony Scott jumped to his death

A witness, who was a passenger in a car driving along the bridge, said Scott looked nervous.

'He was on the roadway close to the fence looking around. He was looking around and fumbling with something at his feet. He looked nervous,' David Silva told the Los Angeles Times.

Silva thought he was a stuntman or taking part in an extreme sports event - until he realised there was no safety cord.

He went on: '[He] paused a couple of seconds and then began
to climb the fence. He put his foot on the top of the fence and paused
again. Then he threw himself off. I immediately thought, that guy is
dead.'

Friends told the New York Post they were not surprised that the director chose to leap to his death as he was a thrill-seeker who loved scaling high mountains.

Several people called 911 around
12.35pm to report that someone had jumped off the bridge, according to Los Angeles police Lt. Tim
Nordquist.

LIFE BEHINDS THE LENS: THE CAREER OF TONY SCOTT

Distinct visual styles mark both siblings' films - Ridley Scott mastering the creation of entire worlds with such films as Gladiator, Blade Runner, Alien and this year's Prometheus, Tony Scott known for hyper-kinetic action and editing on such films as his most recent, the runaway train thriller Unstoppable, starring regular collaborator Denzel Washington.

Tony was the first of the Scott brothers to enjoy blockbuster success with Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise, the top-grossing film of 1986 at $176 million.

Scott teamed with Cruise again four years later on the hit Days of Thunder. He also had a sequel to Top Gun in development.

But Ridley Scott later managed more and bigger hits than his brother and earned a level of critical respect never achieved by Tony Scott.

Gladiator won the best-picture Academy Award for 2000 and earned Ridley Scott one of his three best-director nominations; Tony Scott never was in the running for an Oscar, and critics often slammed his movies for emphasizing style over substance.

The two brothers ran Scott Free Productions and were working jointly on a film called Killing Lincoln, based on the best seller by Bill O'Reilly.

Their company produced the CBS dramas NUMB3RS and The Good Wife as well as a 2011 documentary about the Battle of Gettysburg for the History Channel.

Besides Unstoppable, Scott worked with Washington on four other movies: Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, Deja Vu and The Taking of Pelham 123.

Other Scott films include True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino, The Fan, with Robert De Niro, and Enemy of the State, starring Will Smith.

For confidential support call the Samaritans in the UK on 08457 90 90 90 or visit a local Samaritans branch, see www.samaritans.org for details. In the U.S. call the
National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255